The Ninth Delhi
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View ArticleAddress of Dr. Linus von Castelmur, Ambassador of Switzerland to India at...
Dear Mahendra Raj, ladies and gentlemen, dear friends,1. It’s a privilege to be invited to celebrate with all of you the presentation of an essential book tonight. I should like to congratulate Vandini...
View ArticleChangel: Three centuries of an Indian village
In this article a history is presented of Changel, a village in North Bihar, India, from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present. In the absence of the conventional materials used by...
View ArticleHybrid Bazaar Space
This article uses Mikhail Bakhtin and Homi K. Bhabha’s notions of hybridity as an interpretive tool in a traditional market area situated to the north of the center of Calcutta called Barabazaar or the...
View ArticleThe Gift of the Open Hand: Le Corbusier Reading Georges Bataille's La...
Georges Bataille (1897–1962) was a contemporary of Le Corbusier (1887–1965) and one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. He gave Le Corbusier a copy of his most celebrated book, La...
View ArticleSpace and identity: constructions of national identities in an age of...
This article enquires how notions of national identities are still topical in recent scholarship at a time when processes of globalisation appear to be undermining the nation-state and its territorial...
View ArticleThe New Indian Galleries
[excerpt] A MUSEUM curator of ten has cause to lament the inelasticity of brick and mortar. His collections increase in size, but his gallery walls "stay put" Sometimes, however, a fortunate chance...
View ArticleTeaching Design at the Limits of Architecture
Pre-industrial architects inherently knew the effectual dimension of design through its materiality, detail, and form. Until now, the intellectual dichotomy of human thinking held that mind and body...
View ArticleArchitectural Education in India
Mehta, Madan."Architectural Education in India."Architectural Science Review 21, no. 1-2 (1978): 35-37.
View ArticleLockwood and Meta de Forest in India, Kashmir, and Nepal
Mayer, Roberta A.."Lockwood and Meta de Forest in India, Kashmir, and Nepal."Archives of American Art Journal 52, no. 1/2 (2013): 44-57.
View ArticleIndian Domestic Architecture
IN publishing the following examples of Indian Architecture, my object is to interest all who care for art, and particularly to bring to their notice the industries of wood and stone carving as applied...
View ArticleThe Portuguese Fort of Diu
“The Towne and llande of Diu lyeth distant from the ryver Indo 70. miles under 21. degrées, close to the firme land: in times past it belonged to ye King of Cambaia, in whose land an coast it lyeth,...
View ArticleThe Micro-Politics of Urban Transformation in the Context of Globalisation: A...
Through a case study on Gurgaon in the state of Haryana, this article explores how local political factors, the rural–urban divide and conflicts between multiple tiers of government influenced the...
View ArticleConvict Carpets: Jails and the Revival of Historic Carpet Design in Colonial...
One promising traditional industry slated for revival in late colonial India was carpet weaving. Characterized by low technology, high product value, and strong demand, carpets appealed for obvious...
View ArticleMilitary Security and Urban Development: A Case Study of Delhi 1857–1912
In 1857 Delhi ceased to be the seat of the Mughal kingdom, and in 1912 it became the capital of the British Empire in India. The city had always had strategic and, therefore, economic and political...
View ArticleReview Essay: Beyond nationalism: modernity, governance and a new urban...
Swati Chattopadhyay, Representing Calcutta: Modernity, Nationalism, and the Colonial Uncanny. London and New York: Routledge, 2005. xvi + 314pp. £100.00.Jyoti Hosagrahar, Indigenous Modernities:...
View ArticleMarks of Capital: Colonialism and the Sweepers of Delhi
In a sub-field of Marxism, A.G. Frank and E. Laclau debated the intricate details of Frank's critique of the “dualist thesis”. That thesis argued that capitalism failed to overcome feudalism in its...
View ArticleThe Technology of Sanitation in Colonial Delhi
The preservation of the wealth and welfare of nations, and advances in culture and civilisation depend on how the sewage question is resolved.(von Liebig, 1850s).Delhi is a very suggestive and...
View ArticleThe English Cemetery at Surat: Pre-Colonial Cultural Encounters in Western India
During the seventeenth century East India Company merchants settled in several cities of western India under the control of the Mughal Empire. The most important of these was Surat in Gujarat, where an...
View ArticleThe Aesthetics of Lockwood de Forest: India, Craft, and Preservation
Mayer, Roberta A.."The Aesthetics of Lockwood de Forest: India, Craft, and Preservation."Winterthur Portfolio 31, no. 1 (1996): 1-22.
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